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Osage House D

Bus Stop Dream

2019

12 3/4" X 14 5/8"

Acrylic and Markers on Newspaper Ads on Panel

$200.00

First Post of 2015 THE JANUARY POST

New Found Drugstore Happiness

Mixed Media on Panel

14 1/8" x 15 3/8"

2014

So all of my Grad. School Applications have been submitted and the waiting game has begun.

Above is a painting I was able to finish just before the new year and am quite happy with it.  Looking forward to getting into the studio more this Spring, I have a pile of panels started and need to finish.  If I can save some money I am going to start sending out flyers to find representation outside of KCMO. Debating with myself if I should apply to the Midwest addition of New American Painters this year. Most likely will have plenty of good images and it really doesn't hurt to apply just a little $$$. 

Process shots:  I have been working on this painting for about year the top image is really close to the beginning of its start the lower image is from 1/19/2015.  This painting is one that has been fighting me to find its finished state but I am pleased with where it is headed and I hope it gets finished this spring.  Metallic Enamel Paint is my new best friend now!

So a little while back the Charlotte Street Foundation was looking for images to turn into buttons and I submitted this little fellow above.  I never heard anything about these buttons after that. So I am going to try to get some buttons made and give out to my friends and whoever wants one.  Will keep you posted on these I may need to make some variants. This all will depend on taxes and if I can save money and make money.  But I really want to make these.

Okay last but not the least here is an in progress image of one of my shaped paintings these are really something different to work with, still researching the shapes and where they need to come from. The progress of this one has been quite enjoyable for me. I have only been painting on it for a couple of  sessions.

Selfsies

 Image courtesy of E.G. Schempf

Image courtesy of E.G. Schempf

If you missed the Selfsies here are two  install shots of the show.

Pineapple Habenero

This is a new entry into the Fake Goodness Series

Introducing Pineapple Habenero (a culture explosive)

Mixed media on Deactivated Grenade
$25.00

Wish I Had a Dinosaur

Wish I Had A Dinosaur

Mixed Media on Panel

Colab Details

Here are a couple of details from the newest colabs between Sike and myself.

Mural with paintings

Here is a shot from Open Studios again.  I painted a mural and installed eight paintings on top.  The mural is something I am considering doing in a future exhibition.  Half of these paintings are finished and half are not.

Selections From CSF UCP Open Studios

   This image features John Raux & Seth Jenkins as part of their take on the Game Installation

This image features The Big Sho, he was the last participate in the Game he was so into it at one point he slide down one of the mini curve shapes and got injured.  But after a little cry was ready for more, what an art trooper I say!

Colabo Floppy Discs

small paintings

Here are 3 small paintings that are in progress all of them are mixed media on panel.

They are part of an on going group that I am hoping to show soon.

Paintings on Canvas

Splashdown Takeoff Stump in the Yard

Acrylic and oil on canvas

38 3/8" x 29 1/2"

2012

Oh Inverted Firebird (Circa 1973)

Mixed Media on canvas

38 3/8" x 29 1/2"

2012

in the collection of Waseem Touma

new DETAILS yeah!!

This is a DETAIL of a new painting I am working on its mixed media on panel

 

And this is a DETAIL of a tester, I am trying out a new stencil I call 4 arm octopus.  Also this tester has a new kind of paint that I am thinking about using its the silver and it is an oil based enamel, hoping it works out am digging it right now.

Maquette groups, a painting, & a list of music

1st Photo is of a group of maquettes that I would like to make more of they are mixed media on wood forms dimensions variable.  The 2nd Photo is of a group of maquettes that I am working on and may make into wood forms but are right now made of mixed media on cardboard & paperboard.  The 3rd Photo is of a new painting on paper I am working on, that I happen to enjoy right now it is mixed media on paper.

And here is my list of music from the other night while working on these works and contemplating the collaborations between Phil (SIKE) Shaffer & myself.

1. Gogol Bordello                   Gyspy Punks
2. Gnarls Barkley                    St. Elsewhere
3. Flock of Seagulls                 I Ran (single)
4. Fleetwood Mac                   Landslide (single)
5. Smashing Pumpkins            B-sides box set from Mellon Collie                                                                 & the Infinite Sadness

First Look at Collaborations

Ok so me and Sike (aka Phil Shaffer) have been working on making some collaborative paintings.  And here are two of these paintings in an early state.  We are going to be making around 15 of these bad boys and girls but just 5 to start with.  These are the first 2 they are about 24" x 48" and 48" x 24" mixed media on plywood panel.